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Wichita eagle., 1887-01-01
Written for the Eagle.
A RETROSPECT.

With each new year messenger doth bring,
A message from our Lord, the King;
Bidding each loyal subject try,
To paint picture, as the days go by:
And when the year is fled, he straight will
bring,
Each picture to the presence of the King.
IT asst wear white canvass was before me
Md colors placed beside me, and [ said,
Mis- year | will such beauteous things por-
tray,
That ali who see my painting straight will
Great praise will be bestowed upon this
thing,
When It's presented to our Lord, the King.
And so worked away with patient care,
And with unsteady hand did mirror there,
Flowers so fair that could scarce believe
They had no fragrance: they did 50 deceive.
Ny hand grew weary, yet still would try,
To work on bravciy, but could scarce Gescry
The meaning Of those strokes of sombre blue,
Which mafred the scene near where my
roses grew.
| tried to paint bit Of sky one day;
/ meant it TO he blue, bu5 it was gray.
For by mischance the color mstook,
Because | failed to give careful look.
Ah, when | saw that bit OF stormy sky,
My heart was sad. and tear drops filled my
eye;
For [ had meant my picture to be fair,
And TO keep dark calors out with jealoas
care
With trembling fingers once more did try,
10 draw my picture with a sunny sky.
My work at last accomplished, l was gay
For crimson. gold, and violet, there lay,
In tender beams of tremulous. sheeny light.
My heart exulted at the gladstone sight.
Too soon, alas, my hopes did vanish all;
For wearied by my work lay baud let fall
The brush, and married the iabors of the day,
And turned my gold and crimson into gray.
And now in smiles and tears, l bow my head,
For Oh! the year is almost sped;
And very soon my feeble offering,
VIII be presented to my Lord, the King.
-MRs c. w. DOYLE.
Wichita eagle., 1887-01-01

Totals .S5U07451 GS 2,Gi2,52 % 2, 4,Se9 ;
There have been three hundred and forty
three new business interests and mercantile
establishments of various characters eStab-
Iished in Wichita within the past year,
with an aggregate capital of 81, 900, or
more new business houses opened than The
total number Of the business houses Cf any
other city in Kansas. The table is too long
for us to reproduce in connection with this
article
The sum total of the sales Of our whole
sale and manufacturers, as given in tabu-
lated and itemizcd form amount TO SO,
orc, coo, surely magnificent showing.
But in no line of business or Of invest
ment shows so distinctively and irdisputa-
bly, the magnificent stride made By Wichi-
ia in 1886, and no one thing more clearly
points TO her coming greatness, than the
books of the county recorder of deeds, Civ
ing the daily transactions Of r,al es;itc,
and which have been published daily.
Millions of dollars have been thus added
to the wor king capital of the city. The fol
lowing table gives the transactions for
a,,h month.
Wichita eagle., 1887-01-01

A man has left Kansas City, gone to
Wichita and joined the NJ. E. church, but
we fear he will have to join again if he re-
mains there long-Lawrence Journal.
Yes, to be on the safe side, any man
ever having lived in Kansas City would do
well to join ell the churches possible as
often as convenient.
Wichita eagle., 1887-01-01
able shows the monthly clearances:
The followinr additional table shows the

The following additional table shows the
capital and surplus, the deposits and loans
and discounts for January /, 1886, and for
January /. 1887, and the increase. The
First Ark ansas Valley bank is a private in
stitution and the Bank of Wichita a state
bank. which did not commence business
until October, 1885:
Wichita eagle., 1887-01-01

But We must close with one mere table,
table which is as unerring IS TIE forego-
ing, ard which has The additional hacking
OF an official cath, table in fact relied
upon by The monetary world in making up
their estimates touching the importance Of
any municipality. Property in Kansas is
returned by assessors at from p 10 80 per
cen: of its real or cash value. The follow
ing are the sworn returns of eur valuation
for the PAST four years
Wichita eagle., 1887-01-01

Goodbye 1886, you have proved more
than kind to Wichita-to her people, to all
she contains and is -good-bye7
Wichita eagle., 1887-01-01

The old two-cent stamp goes out today
and the new. Democratic design takes its
Wichita eagle., 1887-01-01
mall additions to Meade Center have made
VIM. C.. WOODMAN
President.

good money out Of their speculation.
Mr.. O'Meara today bought the relln
uuishment of timber claim one-half mile
west of the town site, paying therefor So
900. He is to put presumption filing upon
the same and prove it up.
To conclude Meade Center is booming
with great boom. MEMO.
Wichita eagle., 1887-01-01
800 LOTS!
Strong S :: Addition.

These lots are deSiraDly
located two blocks from horse
cars. Eight or ten fine res
licences going up.
Special Inducements to those
wishing to build. l ID miles
from Douglas ave. south Of Har-
~ ST. For sale by 8. G.
STRONG and leading real estate
agents
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-05-12
An Eastern View of Minneapolis.

The Minneapolis Journal, under
date of May Sd, in an editorial article
discussing the subject of what cOnsti-
tutes real prosperity in the growth of
any city or town says:
A gentleman of many years. expert
ence in eastern business circles, who
has been cashier and purchasing agent
of large corporation for quarter OF
century, is in Minneapolis, with a
view to engaging in business here. In
conversation with friend he express
ed himself substantially as follows:
Minneapolis is a beautiful and pros
porous city. 1t has every needful fla
cility. Its growth has been wonderful
but not unhealthy or unduly inflated.
1t has plenty of capital. By far the
greater amount of it's capital, however,
it appears to me, has been made in
real estate. There are no signs of the
bottom dropping out, but it seems to
me that so much of the prosperity of a
city should not be founded upon the
increase in real estate values. There
is one thing lacking-manufactu
A city like this should look into the
future. Manufactures give the most
solid foundation. There is where
more of the capital in this city should
CO."
The Journal says that the gentleman
who made these remarks is going into
business in Minneapolis. If this is SO
the people of that city are to be con
graduated. He has given them some
good advice to start with, advice that
applies equally well to many other
Western. cities where the boom is. In
the case of Minneapolis with it's large
Touring interests there seems to be
some basis of solidity, but with many
other places, where prosperity rests
upon real estate values and little else,
it is only a question of time when the
bubble will burst. We Opine that a
good deal of Vermont capital that has
found it's way west had much better
be invested in the "wOrn out farms" OF
this state that we hear SO much about.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-05-12
startling" Figures.

Indications show that the year 1887
will witness the largest immigration
to America on record. The arrivals
of immigrants at the port of New York
alone two weeks ago were very near
the average of the highest annual rate
ever reached for the whole country.
Our high water year was 1882, when
there came thither 798, 1892 two weeks
ago there landed at New York nearly
1000 day, or IL, Asa in a single week.
That this astonishing rate is going to
be not only maintained but exceeded
in the months to come is already evil
dent. Telegraphic reports announce
that the foreign agents of the various
transatlantic steamship companies
trading with New York have advised
the commissioners of immigration that
the great exodus of steerage passen-
gers from Ireland and Scotland in
April is nothing compared to that
which will take place after June l.
The reports state that at the present
time nearly 10000 families, total of
5000 persons, have bought tickets
for America. The demand for berths
has been so great that one or two of
the lines were obliged to refuse pas
sages to several patches of intending
immigrants. The problem involved
in transforming this vast body of peO
pie into good citizens is a grave one.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-05-12
PEACHAM.

Carl, youngest child of John Hop
kins, is quite sick.
George ID. Blair has been somewhat
worse this week, suffering severe pain.
We do not remember a spring when
the highways suffered as little as this
spring.
Painter Bartlett has just given Asa
HOyt's and Am. Ricker's houses a new
coat of paint.
The presiding elder was present ut
the Methodist church last Sunday and
preached an excellent sermon.
Theodore FarrOw is 30 years old this
spring; but he went out the other day
and sOwed six bushels of wheat, lust
to show the boys how.
Schools began generally on Monday;
but the one in the north part is delay
ed few days on account of the cOndi-
ton of the roads.
1t has been currently reported that
the new blacksmith at South Peacham
was merely hired by Mr.. Judkins dur
ing the rush of spring work. We I'M
derstand that MIR. Morgan runs the
shop on his own hook and will stay
permanently.
The closing exercises at the acade-
my Friday night were first class. The
programme included two farces, the
broom drill to the tune of "The Red
White and Blue" the John Brown
march, with songs, declamatiOns and a
discussion of prohibition v high license.
Among the best features of the enter
tainment we should mention the Quaker
cOurtship and the singing of "Tenting
tonight" by the quartette, the broth
ers Laughlin and Misses Hazelton and
Harvey.
Before us is copy of the CaledO-
MAN dated Jan. 2, I847. 1t contains
no locals. The first page has several
short stories and political speech.
About one third of the space is devOt-
ed to advertisements, and the rest of
the paper is filled with news from Mex
leo, doings of Congress, and short pO-
litical appeals headed "Storm or no
storm, let every independent freeman
be out on next Tuesday and vote for
Chandler "Abolitionistsi Don't be
cheated a second time" "Slavehold-
er's Wars" "Well donei More Wing
victories" Evidently the Caledonian
was mugwump paper then, as now.
In one corner of the third page a string
of votes is printed to be cut out and
used on election day. The vote reads:
"For Congress, George b. Chandler"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-05-12

A subscriber to the New York
World residing in Moscow, Russia, re-
ceived recent copy of the paper will
a column and a half cable account
of the student plot against the Cars
life completely blOtted out. The Rus
sian post office official who looks after
these things first smeared the printed
matter with a delicate network of mu-
cilage and tn Ell covered it with a fine
black sand. The ObliteratiOn was COM
plete. In this condition the paper was
transmitted to the subscriber. The
mOnial to the survival of tyranny in
this age of enlightenment.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-05-12
Temperance Martyrs.

The murder of DIR. w. Il. NOrthrup
at Haverhill, Ohio, adds another to the
list of martyrs to the cause of temper
ance. He was prOhibitiOnist. SO
pronounced was he as a prOhibitionist
that he was an uncomfortable neigh
Dor for the liquor dealers of Haverhill,
who, finding him unarmed shot him to
death. So long as his views were held
simply as matters of opinion DIR. North
rup was not interfered with; the mo-
ment he began to act them out he was
a marked man and finally they cost
him his life. The effect of the murder
will be to strengthen prohibition SEN
timent not only in the West but all
over the country. 1t is to be hoped
that another result may be to make it
less unpopular to be a staunch, uncom-
promising prohibitionist in New En-
gland, where men of the Haddock and
NOrthrup class are not shot down, to
be sure, but are denominated "cranks, -
and are sometimes made to feel that
they are not desirable citizens i'm the
communities in which they live. The
representatives of the liquor interests
are putting on a bolder front every
day. They allow nothing to interfere
with their schemes and the ends they
have in view, as witness the death of
HaddOck and Northrup. Temperance
men must meet them with an equally
bold front if they would win the day
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-05-12
THE ADVERTISING AGENT.

The following letter, written 10y
John G. Dewey of Burlington to the
Burlington Clipper, was brought out
by recent article in this paper on
''The Advertising Agent"
Editor Clipper: My personal atten-
ton has only just been called to the
excerpt in the Clipper of the 31st ult.
Editor Stone has not published an
exact copy of my proposition to him.
endorsed by you, are not correct, us
between advertising space, and, for
instance, drugs as a commodity. This
can be clearly demonstrated by my
self and others to anyone. To illus
trate, drugs have their staple values,
fluctuating often, yet always known
advertising space has a staple value
also, apparently. but it exists upon pa
per only, in rs per cent. of American
papers. Here and there may be found
paper whose editor is known or found
to have some true ideas of business,
and willing to apply the same to his
stock in trade. To sum it all up brief
ly drugs and merchandise generally
have known values, and al,Uays at bot
tom. but it is very difficult, not to say
impossible, for an agent or an adver-
tiser, not to say publisher, to deter
mine the bottom values of "space"
Hence it is properly part of an agents
business not to pay if possible higher
rates, when lower can in his experience
be obtained. And it often happens
that Internationally a low offer gets
out to one or more papers, which he
hoe 20 L.
ed, based upon the average offering
price for that piece of work. Occasion
ally, too, he is surprised to receive an
acceptance. In this business, we live
to learn, and learn not to he astOnish-
ed at most anything.
AS we have already stated and as
MIR. Dewey has since admitted, his
proposition was correctly copied by
usin the article referred to. The
rest of the letter, while in no sense
an answer to our article, furnishes
good text for emphasizing one point
that we particularly desired to make,
viz: that the newspaper editors and
publishers are their own worst enemies
in this matter of advertising.
AS Mr.. Dewey says, drugs and other
merchandise have their staple values,
fiuctuatIng often, yet always known
advertising space has an apparent sta
pie value, also, but it exists only on
paper in rs per cent. of American pa
pers. Here is just the difficulty. Every
paper issues a card of rates, which
every advertising agent knows may
mean what it says in exceptional cases,
but Oftener does not represent nearly
as low rates as can be obtained. The
publisher practically says "There's my
price; what will you give ~ The
agent offers an absurdly low figure,
attaching to the offer conditions that
make the contract well nigh impossible
of fulfillment, and gradually works mp
to the editors bottom price. What
other business in the land is conducted
in this mannerf Is it to be wondered
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-05-12
Only strict Enforcement Needed.


Judge Ross ruling in this county
concerning bonds of convicted liquor
sellers meets with prompt approval
throughout the state. This ruling
makes it very plain that all we need is
strict enforcement of the prOhibitOry
law to make it effective. Franklin
county perhaps more than any other
has suffered through the indulgence of
the court, with the result that many
liquor dealers who should have done
service in the wOrkhOuse have escaped
merited punishment. Judge Ross ac-
ton calls marked attention to this
abuse of the law, and will undoubted
~ result in great good. If the law is
a good one it should be impartially en-
forced, and judges or other officials who
evade their duty under the law should
be marked for public censnre. 1t is
safe to say that the precedent estab-
lished by Judge Ross in this county
will not be soon forgotten.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-05-12
VERMONT NEWS.
Vermont's Protest.

A large mass meeting to protest
against the passage of the coercion
bill and to express sympathy with Ire
land was held at Burlington Thursday
Gov. Ormsbee presided, and the speak
ers were the governor, Col. Albert
Clarke of Rutland, John E. Fitzgerald
of Boston, F. w. McGettrick of St.
Adams and Congressman w. w.
GrOut. Stirring resolutions were
adopted. Cablegrams were sent to
Minister Phelps and to Gladstone and
Parnell. A letter was read from Sena-
tor Edmunds, expressing sympathy for
Ireland and hope for a permanent
amelioration of her condition, but dep
recating the giving of any cOuntenance
to crime or violence, open or secret.
against the lives or property of any of
her people.
The orders for temperance text
books provided by the state are all in.
They call for AZ 300 copies which, with
few other books ordered for the schools
will cost from $4,000 to $4,000.
The largest purchase of blocks and
sawed marble ever accomplished in
Vermont was made last week by a
Western man, who ordered from va
FiOuS companies 10 car lOauS, I'D Oe
shipped to him in short time.
Mrs. Louise Daniels of the Lake
Champlain steamer Water Lily, has
passed the usual examination and re
ceived license as pilot of that steam
er. She is said to be skillful pilot,
having spent each summer on the lake
for the past 10 years.
A. l.. DinsmOre's steam mill at
Bridgewater Corners was burned Fri
day morning, together with 100000
feet of hard wood lumber, several car
loads of jiggered stuff and house and
barn adjoining. The fire is believed
to be the work of an incendiary. Loss
$4,000; insurance reported $1,000.
While Mr.. and Mrs. L. B. Ward of
West Rutland were riding in Hyde
vile last Wednesday COW, chased by
three boys and dog, jumped frantic
ally upon the back of the buggy, pitch
ing Mrs. Ward out upon the ground,
breaking her arm between the elbow
and the shoulder and crushing the
bones in her shoulder.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-05-12
RYEGATE.

The call presented to Rev. H. W.
Temple of the Reformed church last
week, he has under considerati on and
will decide soon.
Rev. j. s. T. Milligan who is con-
nected with the National Reform AS
ISOLATION gave lecture at the Reform
ed Presbyterian church last week. 1t
was not largely attended, owing to in
sufficient notice.
The schools are now generally in
session. Dist. No. l is taught by Miss
Carter, young lady who has had
some experience in teaching, and whose
recommendation by our Supt. assures
us of a model school.
The people of Groton village and
South Ryegate had genuine scare
last Sabbath. 1t was reported that the
dam at GrOtOn Pond was leaking bad
ly, and liable to go out at any time.
A gang of men were at work all day,
and the panic was stayed.
Rev. j. w. Flagg of So. Ryegate has
received call to become pastor of a
church at So. birmingham, Mass. He
regards the call favorably, and very
likely will accept. He is popular in
his congregation, popular as a towns
man, and we should regret to have him
leave.
There came very near being a seri
GUS accident OH the river road near
Maj. Nelson's last week. The water
flooded the Main road near the school
house and raised bridge about two
feet. A Mr.. Hill attempted to cross
with span of horses and buggy. The
horses succeeded in getting on the
bridge, but the buggy was left, break
ing pole, harness, ETC., with no other
serious damage.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-05-12
GREAT FIRE AT LEBANON. Nh.
Every Mill and Factory, Twenty DWELL
ings and a Dozen Stores Rurnt

Every Mill and Factory, Twenty DWELL
fngs and a Dozen Stores Burnt.
A fire broke out at Lebanon, N. H..
at l o'clock Tuesday morning and
burned for four hours. About Is acres
were burned over with an estimated
loss of 100000. Every mill and man
ufacturing establishment i'm the village
proper has been swept away with near
ly twenty dwellings and about dozen
stores, 80 buildings all told including
all of Mead, Mason & Co.'s shops and
stOrehOuses, Kendrick & Davis watch
shops, Scale & Sons foundry and ma
chine shops, Rogers woollen mill
formerly a sponge factory,) B. t. Til
den's wood working shop, occupied by
Muchmore & Whipple and others, w.
F. Shaw's grist mill, the Free Press
printing office, buildings, livery stable
and marble shop, Baldwin's block,
Pulsifers block, MarstOn's sawmill, the
old Lafayette Hotel buildings, c. d.
ScOtt's livery stable, the Mascoma
house, % dwellings and storehOuses,
barns and shops. Fully 500 mechan-
les are thrown out of employment. The
entire loss is not less than $500, 900,
Mead, Mason & Co.'s loss is about
100000, with not more than $4,000
insurance.
There was high wind, which help
ed to increase the loss in the south
west part of the village, but at the
same time aided in saving the larger
portion of the mercantile section of
the place. In addition to the above
property the public bridge on Masco-
ma street, the Northern railroad bridge
and the private railroad bridge of
Mead, Mason & Co., all over Mascoma
river, were burned.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-05-12

There were four disastrous fires in
New Hampshire this week, three on
Tuesday and one yesterday. The one
at Lebanon involved a loss of $780,
600; the town of SuncOOk lost $50, OOC
and Bethlehem $4,000. At last ac-
counts a fire was raging in New BOs'
ton that seemed likely to destroy it
Each of these villages paid the penal
ty of inadequate fire services and Their
experience should serve as a warning
to other towns in Vermont as well as
in New Hampshire Chat are, at certain
seasons of the year, practically with
out protection in case of a like vista
ton.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-05-12
Fredericton has been almost submerg-

Fredericton has been almost submerg-
ed mills have been closed, etc.
Violent earthquakes are reported in
Arizona. The canons in the Santa
Catalina mountains are full of water
The earthquake opened two large gold
veins which were discovered in the
Santa Catalina mountains, at a point
where the whole side of the mountain
slid down.
At Portsmouth, Ohio, the grand jury
investigating the killing of DR.. North
rup, the prohibitionist, by the McCoys.
has indicted all four of the McCoys for
murder in the first degree. The shoot
ing grew out of a whisky selling case
in which Northrup was a witness for
the prosecution. Mccoy, a saloon
keeper, swOre vengeance on him.
A terrible explosion in the Victoria
coal company's mine at NanaimO, on
the eastern shore of Vancouver Island,
b. c., makes widows of AZ women,
most of whom have large families. One
hundred and one white men and rs
Chinese were in the mine at the time
of the explosion. The scenes around
the shaft were heart-rending.
A disastrous earthquake in Mexico
occurred May 3 at Bahispe, district of
Montezuma, Sonora, by which $50 per-
sons lost their lives. At the same
time volcanic eruptions began in the
mountains, lighting up the summit for
a long distance. Local scientists pre-
dict that Mexico is about to undergo
general seismic commissions.
A large lumber mill known as the
Waumbeck mill at Bethlehem juno
ton was burned Tuesday afternoon.
The flames communicated to the board
ing house, which, together with one
tenement house and the office, were
also destroyed. Thence the flames
spread to the lumber in the yard.
The burned property was owned by
w. g. r. MOwrey of Providence, r. /.
The loss is $4,000; insured. The
fire originated from the smoke stack
of the engine in the mill.